At Big Digital Adelaide, I asked Gary Illyes about whether people should switch to the so-called vanity TLDs such as .attorney help with rankings due to the presence of keywords in those TLDs for a supposed ranking boost. It is an interesting idea, whether you can gain an additional ranking boost for the TLD keyword […]
Archives for June 2016
Google: Does Not Matter Which 301, 302, 307 Redirect, All Pass PageRank
There is a hot debate amongst SEOs about what type of redirects to use for SEO, particularly when it comes to passing PageRank. At Big Digital Adelaide today, I asked Gary Illyes from Google about the great redirect debate, and whether it really matters whether a site uses a 301, 302 or 3o7 redirect, as […]
Google Ignores Spam Reports from Users Filing Many Bogus Reports
We learned earlier this year that Google does prioritize spam reports from those users with a history of good spam reports, something that Gary Illyes from Google confirmed again today at Big Digital Adelaide. But he also dropped some details for users that file bogus spam reports. The specific question was about competitors filing a […]
RankBrain: Social Sharing and Social Ads Have No Impact on RankBrain
RankBrain is one of Google’s most misunderstood search algorithms and as a result, there has been a vast amount of rumor and speculation about what RankBrain can and cannot do. One of the repeated rumors about RankBrain is that social shares and/or social ads can impact how RankBrain ranks a site, and the more social “impact” […]
Google Still Working on Separate Mobile Search Index
Google is still working on their mobile search index, something Google first confirmed last year, although we haven’t heard much about it for a year or so. The mobile index would be completely separate from the desktop index and would be for searches done on mobile only. Why is Google working on a mobile only […]
Next Mobile Friendly Update Includes Page Speed; Coming in Months
At Search Marketing Summit Sydney today, Gary Illyes confirmed that page speed will be a factor in the next mobile friendly update. Google has long talked about wanting to make page speed a mobile friendly factor, but this is the first time someone from Google has confirmed that it is actually coming. I also asked Illyes […]